APHORISM 8
by Eileen Nauman with commentary by Paul Booyse, Debra,
and Gaby Rottler
Copyright ©2007 Eileen Nauman
All Rights Reserved
APHORISM 8
"After the elimination of all the symptoms and
perceptible signs of disease, one cannot imagine or demonstrate by any experiment in the
world that anything but health remains, that anything but health could remain; nor can one
doubt that all the pathological changes inside the organism have been neutralized.
When someone has been cured by a real physician, so that no sign or symptom of disease remains and all the indications of health have permanently returned, can one without affronting human intelligence possibly maintain that the disease continues to dwell somewhere in the economy?
Yet this is what a past authority of the old school, Hufeland, maintained when he said (Homoopathie, p. 27,1. 19): "Homoeopathy can remove symptoms, but the disease remains." He said this partly out of spite because of the progress of homoeopathy for the good of mankind and partly because of his still totally materialistic conception of disease. He could not conceive of it as a state of being of the organism dynamically untuned by a disturbed vital force, as an alteration in the state of health, but considered it as a material thing, which could, after a cure, remain hidden in some secret corner of the organism to reveal its material presence at a later date, breaking out at will right in the midst of flourishing health!
Such is as yet the blindness of the old pathology! After all that, no wonder it has no other therapy to offer than "sweeping clean" the poor patient!
COMMENT BY EILEEN:
Hahnemann continues to rail at the "parts are parts" doctors of his time
(and indeed, it continues to this day in our time!). He notes that after all the symptoms
are gone, he cannot imagine anyone being able to prove beyond a doubt, that only good
health remains. He especially brings to task that all the pathology symptoms have been
neutralized, also.
I find his use of the word 'neutralized' interesting but on target. The symptoms are not suppressed (as they are by traditional doctors and their drug medicines). They are not dissolved. Rather, they are met head on, if you will, by the single correct homeopathic remedy that will stimulate the entire body and all its forces, including the immune system to respond and react. In doing so, the weaker disease (the set of symptoms the patient had) is 'neutralized.' Nice and tidy.
In (a) the doctors of Hahnemann's time ridiculed him for saying that once a person is cured of all symptoms only health can occur, they tried to tell him that in some corner, system or organ, the 'disease' was still hiding--and would "jump out" and reassert itself at some later time. Hahnemann, of course, scoffed at them because he'd seen homeopathy work and he saw CURE. Cure is the absence of disease, of symptoms. With cure, only health, good health, is in its place.
And unless the person undergoes some future stress/trauma/shock or puts themselves into an obstacle to cure situation, then health will remain the foundation of that person's vital force for the rest of their life.
GABY ROTTLER:
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Organon der Heilkunst, §8:
Es laesst sich nicht denken, auch durch keine Erfahrung in der
Welt nachweisen, dass, nach Hebung aller Krankheitssymptome und des ganzen Inbegriffs der
wahrnehmbaren Zufaelle, etwas anders, als Gesundheit, uebrig bliebe oder uebrig bleiben
koenne, so dass die krankhafte Veraenderung im Innern ungetilgt geblieben waere (1).
1) Wenn jemand dergestalt von seiner Krankheit durch einen wahren Heilkuenstler hergestellt worden, dass kein Zeichen von Krankheit, kein Krankheits-Symptom mehr uebrig und alle Zeichen von Gesundheit dauernd wiedergekehrt sind, kann man bei einem solchen, ohne dem Menschenverstande Hohn zu sprechen, die ganze leibhafte Krankheit doch noch im Innern wohnend voraussetzen? Und dennoch behauptete der ehemalige Vorsteher der alten Schule, Hufeland, dergleichen mit den Worten (s. d. Homoeopathie S. 27. Z.
19.): .. Die Homoeopathik kann die Symptome heben, aber die
Krankheit bleibt" - behauptete es theils aus Gram über die Fortschritte der
Homoeopathik zum Heile der Menschen, theils weil er noch ganz materielle Begriffe von
Krankheit hatte, die er noch nicht als ein, dynamisch von der krankhaft verstimmten
Lebenskraft veraendertes Sein des Organisms, nicht als abgeaendertes Befinden sich zu
denken vermochte, sondern sie für ein materielles Ding ansah, was nach geschehener
Heilung noch in irgend einem Winkel im Innern des Koerpers liegen geblieben sein
koennte, um dereinst einmal bei schoenster Gesundheit, nach Belieben, mit seiner
materiellen Gegenwart hervorzubrechen! So krass ist noch die Verblendung der alten
Pathologie! Kein Wunder, dass eine solche nur eine Therapie erzeugen konnte, die auf
blosses Ausfegen des armen Kranken losging.
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Different translations in [ ] by Gaby:
§ 8
After the elimination of all the symptoms and perceptible signs of disease, one
cannot imagine or demonstrate by any experiment in the world that anything but health
remains, that anything but health could remain; nor can one doubt that all the
pathological changes inside the organism have been neutralized.a
[One cannot imagine nor demonstrate by any experience in the world, that, after elimination of all symptoms of disease and of the entire essence of perceptible accidents , anything but health would or could remain, so that the morbid change inside would have stayed unextinguished. GR]
a. When someone has been cured [has been cured in such a manner , GR] by a real physician, so that no sign or symptom of disease remains and all the indications of health have permanently returned, can one without affronting human intelligence possibly maintain that the disease [that the entire, corporeal disease , GR] continues to dwell somewhere in the economy [continues to dwell inside , GR]?
Yet this is what a past authority of the old school, Hufeland, maintained when he said (Homoopathie, p. 27,1. 19): "Homoeopathy can remove symptoms, but the disease remains."
He said this partly out of spite because of the progress of homoeopathy for the good of mankind and partly because of his still totally materialistic conception of disease. He could not conceive of it as a state of being of the organism dynamically untuned by a disturbed vital force, as an alteration in the state of health, but considered it as a material thing, which could, after a cure, remain hidden in some secret corner of the organism to reveal its material presence at a later date, breaking out at will right in the midst of flourishing health!
[... maintained this partly out of grief because of the progress of Homoeopathy for the welfare of mankind and partly because he still had materialistic concepts of disease, which he could not think of as a being of the organism , dynamically changed by the morbid, out of tune vital force, as a changed state of health, but considered it (the disease, GR) as a material thing, which could still have kept lying after a cure in any corner in the inside of the body, to break out some day at will with his material presence right in the midst of flourishing health. GR]
Such is as yet the blindness of the old pathology! After all that, no wonder it has no other therapy to offer than "sweeping clean" the poor patient!
[So crass is still the delusion of the old pathology! No wonder, it could create only a therapy which focussed on simply sweeping clean the poor patient. GR]